Your Mountain Lion 10.8 Mac Will (Probably) Run OS X Mavericks, Too

With any new operating system release, there's a certain amount of hand-wringing from users running an older version -- but for now, it seems as if the new OS X Mavericks will work on any Mountain Lion-friendly hardware.

Although anything can change between now and this fall, a forum post on MacRumors claims the system requirements for the just-released Developer Preview for OS X Mavericks 10.9 are identical to those for the existing OS X 10.8.

At least for now, Apple appears to be breaking from its recent tradition of dropping support for older hardware with each new OS X release, although it certainly helps that Cupertino no longer ships Macs that don't support 64-bit processors.

We'll have to wait and see what happens when OS X Mavericks is actually released later this year, but those with a slightly older Mac appear to be safe for now.